Section 324.5001 - DefinitionsAs used in this section:
(a) "Asset management" means an ongoing process of maintaining, upgrading, and operating physical assets cost-effectively, based on a continuous physical inventory and condition assessment and investment to achieve performance goals.(b) "Asset management plan" means a set of procedures to manage assets through their life cycles, based on principles of life cycle costing.(c) "Asset owner" means a person or agency that owns or operates an asset that meets either of the following requirements:(i) Serves 1,000 or more individuals and is required by a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit to have an asset management plan.(ii) Serves 1,000 or more individuals and is required by the safe drinking water act, 1976 PA 399, MCL 324.1001 to 324.1003, to have an asset management plan.(d) "Department" means the department of environmental quality.(e) "Drinking water assets" means a system, owned by an asset owner, of pipes and structures through which drinking water is obtained and distributed, including, but not limited to, wells and well structures, wellhead protection areas, groundwater protection areas, intakes and cribs, pumping stations, treatment plants, storage tanks, pipelines, and appurtenances, or a combination of these pipes and structures that are used or intended for use for the purpose of furnishing drinking water for drinking or household purposes.(f) "Michigan infrastructure council" means the Michigan infrastructure council created in the Michigan infrastructure council act.(g) "Performance goals" means standards of system performance that reflect asset management principles for asset preservation and sustainability, operations, capacity consistent with local needs, and identified levels of service.(h) "Region" means the geographic jurisdiction of any of the following:(i) A regional planning commission created pursuant to 1945 PA 281, MCL 125.11 to 125.25.(ii) A regional economic development commission created pursuant to 1966 PA 46, MCL 125.1231 to 125.1237.(iii) A metropolitan area council formed pursuant to the metropolitan councils act, 1989 PA 292, MCL 124.651 to 124.729.(iv) A metropolitan planning organization established pursuant to federal law.(v) An agency directed and funded by section 822f of article VIII of 2016 PA 268 to engage in joint decision-making practices related but not limited to community development, economic development, talent, and infrastructure opportunities.(i) "Stormwater assets" means green or gray features, owned by an asset owner, that are located within the geographic limits of an asset service area and are designed or actively managed by an asset owner for collecting, storing, treating, conveying, or attenuating stormwater, such as catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches and channels solely conveying stormwater, pipes, conduits, swales, bioswales, storm drains, gulches, gullies, flumes, culverts, bridges, siphons, retention, detention, or infiltration areas, floodwalls, levees, pumping stations, and other similar facilities.(j) "Transportation asset management council" means the transportation asset management council created in section 9a of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247.659a.(k) "Wastewater assets" means a system, owned by an asset owner, of pipes and structures, including pipes, channels, conduits, manholes, pumping stations, wastewater or wastewater treatment fixed assets, diversion and regulatory devices, outfall structures, and appurtenances, used to collect, convey, transport, treat, or otherwise handle wastewater.Added by 2018, Act 324,s 1, eff. 7/2/2018.